A group of scientists from Southern California recently came to the Bay Area to send up a series of weather balloons to help ...

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated by Trump as Health secretary, faces Senate scrutiny over his past statements on vaccines and abortion, raising public health concerns. (Scripps News) ...

Rain fell across northern California on Saturday and could continue for days with an atmospheric river hanging over the ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry ...

A strong Pacific storm will begin to uncoil across Oregon, Washington and Northern California through the weekend, promising ...

“We call those downslope winds,” says Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at Scripps Institution ... remains were put out by an atmospheric river Pacific storm that occurred on ...

At least two more weeks of bone-chilling temperatures are headed for the Bay Area.

The flooding rains arrive after weeks of bone-dry winds fanned wildfires that killed at least 29 people and burned more than ...

In an emailed alert, the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego forecast the possibility of an atmospheric river making landfall over ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a ...